UVA Computer Science News

In fall of 2015, UVA Engineering announced the establishment of the Link Lab, an interdisciplinary initiative designed to create a world-class center of excellence in cyber-physical systems. The lab itself is under construction, consuming the top floor of the Engineering’s School’s Olsson Hall. Meanwhile, Link Lab faculty members have continued to demonstrate their national leadership

UVA Engineering is celebrating three faculty members who have earned prestigious and selective National Science Foundation CAREER awards. Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Computer Science and the Systems & Information Engineering departments, received his award for “Scaling up KnowledgeDiscovery in High-Dimensional Data via Nonconvex Statistical Optimization.” The abstract is

Machine learning is already changing everyday life. Email providers use machine learning to choke off the flood of spam heading for our inboxes, banks use it to spot credit card fraud and streaming music services us it to select songs we like. In all these cases, these organizations apply algorithms that analyze data for specific

One day soon, the overhead lights and desk lamps in your office could connect you securely to the Internet. The new technology is called Li-Fi, and it uses LED light waves to connect and stream data. Research from Maite Brandt-Pearce, professor of electrical and computer engineering and executive associate dean for academic affairs at UniversityREAD MORE